It's a balance of purchase price vs electric cost. For my purposes (and electric rates) the breakeven point is just over a year between using my current cast-offs for a home server, and buying a new C3-based system.
But I'm unaware of bargain-priced Transmetas that would reach even the payback period of a C3.
I wondered who Via was going to move to, after Ezra and Nehemiah. By one sequence, Esther would be the next logical step. By any other sequence, I'm not enough of a scholar of Hebrew history to have a decent guess.
Reclassify movie bootlegging as "economic terrorism" and you can apply a whole different set of laws and punishments. Plus if there's some particular country harboring economic terrorists this way, there's always Regime Change.
First to go should be Norway, for harboring that well-known economic and computing terrorist, Johansen.
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Other than the Linux boot already on the machine, he can get a more current Windows when he gets to school, with his student's discount. He's currently looking at animation, (the art side) and those students generally have (beefier) desksides rather than laptops.
I got a half-gig from my wife. But then, when it's booted to Win98, it can't use more than 640M, anyway. (Without some arcane registry stuff.) Besides, this system probably goes to college next Fall with my son.
At the game store at the mall, they're selling empty Doom 3 boxes for $5.00. Of course it's a preorder, but there's an arrival date of 4/15/04, and a price of $50.
Unfortunately the box has no hardware requirements listed.
Seems to me that perhaps the Freedom Of Information Act is applicable, here. It has been used in the past to gain access to many other documents that were relevant to the public good.
As for "Trust us, we're the government!" that's something the founding fathers would NEVER agree with, as they didn't completely trust the government they themselves were creating.
Way back when, there were several GNOME releases named after the Bonobo, rather like kernel 2.6-test releases are being named after the Turkey.
Presumably anyone who looked into the Bonobo a little bit learned about sperm competition, from the most extreme example amoung primates, if not the animal kingdom.
There's much lamentation about how gameplay is getting lost in the effects and realism. But we need to put in another word - FUN. A few years back, someone on Usenet mentioned coming across Doom on his computer - he'd forgotten about it, not having played it in a year or two. He turned the lights down, the sound up, and started the game. The old feel was back, and it was fun!
So with newer games, how much is 3D addiction, (a particular weakness of mine) how much is novelty addiction, and how much is fun?
My personal favorite was Hexen, a nifty combination of FPS, puzzles, and neat settings. Now that my son is old enough, I've been trying to get things set for a network game. Unfortunately none of the source ports will compile on both of my desktop machines. (old and new) It never was a popular game, and has languished.
Using a peer-to-peer network, as you suggest, is setting up and executing a DDOS attack. Never mind that they may deserve it, it's still setting up a DDOS attack, and is illegal.
OTOH, simply responding to their spam is just what they asked us to do. That may be a DDOS attack, but it's a self-requested one.
The place for a peer-to-peer network is in the whitelist - the places we DON'T want to attack. I fully expect spammers to include lists of innocent victems in their spam, as well as the desired recipient. Any spam-responder client needs to check the whitelist, and not respond to any of those addresses.
Next comes spammers trying to get their clients onto the whitelist, and whitelist attacks in general, just like they're attacking RBLs, today.
The copy of Win2k on my laptop from work won't play games worth spit. Let's rephrase that, it won't do Quake3, and it wouldn't do one other game I tried to install. Not that the work laptop is used for gaming, but I tried to have a few pastimes on it when taking a tight-timed business trip to a non-scenic place. Pinball, solitaire, and minesweeper don't hack it for long.
But DirectX is probably the big issue, and probably won't be a big bother for a few more years. I have DX8.1 on the machine now, and will make sure and snarf DX9 about as soon as I have time. But it sounds like DXX will only come out for WinXP, and maybe Win2k. But given the number of games that take advantage of even DX8, it'll be a little while before I'm forced to upgrade, at least. Next problem is getting a full copy at a decent price. I have some old Win3.1 diskettes that serve as proof for my Win98SE CD, and I'm not sure what a Win2k/WinXP upgrade would require as proof.
And I'm still in no hurry to make some of my money some of Bill's. Maybe by the time I'm forced to do something, Linux will really be on the desktop with SDL 2.x or 3.x and OpenGL 2.x.
IMHO, Win98SE was the peak of the DOS-extender Windows family.
WinME was a royal pain. Win2k was decent as an OS, but not there for gaming. (Pursuade me otherwise, and maybe I'll try to buy a copy.) WinXP is the 'converged' heir apparent, iff you don't mind ACTIVATION.
Besides, I HAVE a legit copy of Win98SE on my main gaming machine, and don't want to send more money West.
This was a Slashdot article on November 17. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/ 17/22 47251 (sorry, I'm a text-mode bigot.) I'd been thinking about this concept for a few weeks, and about submitting it to Slashdot when someone beat me to the punch. IMHO, it can be developed into a great idea, but needs some work. (That's why I hadn't submitted it, yet.)
This is kind of like the War on Drugs. IMHO, the War on Drugs is more dangerous and has worse side-effects than the drugs, themselves. Current efforts to fight spam are focusing on the spam, and are just breeding more clever spammers.
We need to take the war to the folks who advertise through spammers. We need to harness the Slashdot effect for Good, instead of Evil.
The purpose of spam is to connect me to someone selling something. So let's connect. Let's ALL connect. Imagine a client that can go through my Mozilla (or Thunderbird) spam folder, and start accessing, via email or http. They would not be prepared for the volume of response.
So let's take these poor folks who advertise through spam and HELP them get to their tarket audience more efficiently, primarily by not targeting so many people who don't want their advertising. So in the auto-response is some sort of tell-tale, "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" words that they can understand. Kind of like a 'Do not call' list, but more like, 'Do not call, or else!'
There are two downsides: 1: It generates extra net traffic, and might be even worse than the spam itself, in this regard. Such a spam-auto-response client would have to be carefully tuned, initially on the light side, and ramping up. 1a: A variation on this might be the tar-client. It would take a fudged TCP stack, but imaging not ACKing packets, or delaying ACKs to slow the traffic and tie up the connection. Harder to do than a classic tarpit, but something might be possible. 2: I could see spammers adding extra response addresses in to their advertisements, just to discredit this type of effort. I could see them adding links to the likes of IBM, Microsoft, and US government institutions so users of the clients would be responsible for a DDOS attack. Some sort of whitelist or extra filtering step would be needed, and any sort of whitelist would come under attack by spammers. (THIS is why I never posted.)
Years back I was getting bothered by a headhunter, offering to more than double my salary to move to Silicon Valley. I thought a bit and realized that my cost of living would likely more than double, at least when I considered housing and commute. Besides the near impossiblity of prying my wife out of Vermont, especially for Silicon Valley, I rather like it here, too.
"going to a commune in Vermont where I don't need to think of any unit of time smaller than the season..." (from Soul of the New Machine, by Tracy Kidder)
I do deal in nano and pico seconds, but that's when I'm at work. At home, I like the pace of the area.
Districting laws which are anything but neutral are a DISASTER, be they Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, or Socialist Worker. I would personally not be proud of my party having 'reworked districting laws in their favor.' Restoring neutrality is one thing, and I can agree that true neutrality can be a hard target to hit. But what they're trying to do in Texas is an abomination, carving parts of Austin and diluting them in places a hundred miles away, or more.
One of the things that annoyed me most about the 2000 election was the complete non-neutrality of the Florida Attorney General. She made no pretense of fair play, neutrality, or doing the right thing. She kept yelling, "Game Over, We WON!" as many times as she could, in spite of the fact that the facts were still a bit shakey.
One of the failings of a Democracy is the Tyranny of the Majority. That's where we are, right now. Crap like Gerrymandered redistricting makes it worse. An organized party pushing its agenda without concern for the WHOLE COUNTRY is not a Good Thing.
OTOH, Dell is accused of using non-standard parts.
Which is true. One of my highest concerns when buying computing gear is that I can run Linux on it, upgrade it, and fix it, all from standard parts. I usually get my parts at the MIT flea market, Hosstraders' Hamfest, or mail order, and I want those parts (assuming they're good, which they usually are) to work in my systems.
Frankly, I'm scared of ANY brand name, for that very reason, and generally stick to the white boxes.
Only one of my systems isn't below the article's low end. The kids' system is decent, with an Athlon XP 2.1, but my desktop is an old K6-3.
Unfortunately it's AT, not ATX, so it's not a matter of a few hundred to replace the CPU and female-parent-board. It's the case, power supply, memory, etc. (But not the 1987-vintage true-blue IBM keyboard.) By the time I sink that amount of money into it, I'm NOT going for the low end.
I usually keep an eye on CPU prices, and buy around the knee of the price curve. Of course I agree that the other considerations, RAM, disk speed, etc, are at least as important as the CPU.
I honestly think google should be visually recognizable on such a map.
Never mind, I just realized that it's a hop map, not a link map. I would expect both google and slashdot (and perhaps memepool) to be recognizable on a link map.
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It's a balance of purchase price vs electric cost. For my purposes (and electric rates) the breakeven point is just over a year between using my current cast-offs for a home server, and buying a new C3-based system.
But I'm unaware of bargain-priced Transmetas that would reach even the payback period of a C3.
I wondered who Via was going to move to, after Ezra and Nehemiah. By one sequence, Esther would be the next logical step. By any other sequence, I'm not enough of a scholar of Hebrew history to have a decent guess.
They didn't furnish a man page for son (18) either. Nor wife (4?) for that matter.
Every now and then, I hear my daughter (15) playing some riffs of Doom music on her flute.
Reclassify movie bootlegging as "economic terrorism" and you can apply a whole different set of laws and punishments. Plus if there's some particular country harboring economic terrorists this way, there's always Regime Change.
First to go should be Norway, for harboring that well-known economic and computing terrorist, Johansen.
True, but depressing, -1
Other than the Linux boot already on the machine, he can get a more current Windows when he gets to school, with his student's discount. He's currently looking at animation, (the art side) and those students generally have (beefier) desksides rather than laptops.
I got a half-gig from my wife. But then, when it's booted to Win98, it can't use more than 640M, anyway. (Without some arcane registry stuff.) Besides, this system probably goes to college next Fall with my son.
But it's now ready for Doom3.
and I guess a box has no 'hardware requirements' beyond those, does it. The guy at the store did say that the game will require 256M+, though.
At the game store at the mall, they're selling empty Doom 3 boxes for $5.00. Of course it's a preorder, but there's an arrival date of 4/15/04, and a price of $50.
Unfortunately the box has no hardware requirements listed.
Seems to me that perhaps the Freedom Of Information Act is applicable, here. It has been used in the past to gain access to many other documents that were relevant to the public good.
As for "Trust us, we're the government!" that's something the founding fathers would NEVER agree with, as they didn't completely trust the government they themselves were creating.
Way back when, there were several GNOME releases named after the Bonobo, rather like kernel 2.6-test releases are being named after the Turkey.
Presumably anyone who looked into the Bonobo a little bit learned about sperm competition, from the most extreme example amoung primates, if not the animal kingdom.
Now you cut to the heart of the matter.
Doom was FUN!
There's much lamentation about how gameplay is getting lost in the effects and realism. But we need to put in another word - FUN. A few years back, someone on Usenet mentioned coming across Doom on his computer - he'd forgotten about it, not having played it in a year or two. He turned the lights down, the sound up, and started the game. The old feel was back, and it was fun!
So with newer games, how much is 3D addiction, (a particular weakness of mine) how much is novelty addiction, and how much is fun?
My personal favorite was Hexen, a nifty combination of FPS, puzzles, and neat settings. Now that my son is old enough, I've been trying to get things set for a network game. Unfortunately none of the source ports will compile on both of my desktop machines. (old and new) It never was a popular game, and has languished.
Do they still both install separate copies of the entire runtime libaraies?
There's a subtle difference, here.
Using a peer-to-peer network, as you suggest, is setting up and executing a DDOS attack. Never mind that they may deserve it, it's still setting up a DDOS attack, and is illegal.
OTOH, simply responding to their spam is just what they asked us to do. That may be a DDOS attack, but it's a self-requested one.
The place for a peer-to-peer network is in the whitelist - the places we DON'T want to attack. I fully expect spammers to include lists of innocent victems in their spam, as well as the desired recipient. Any spam-responder client needs to check the whitelist, and not respond to any of those addresses.
Next comes spammers trying to get their clients onto the whitelist, and whitelist attacks in general, just like they're attacking RBLs, today.
The copy of Win2k on my laptop from work won't play games worth spit. Let's rephrase that, it won't do Quake3, and it wouldn't do one other game I tried to install. Not that the work laptop is used for gaming, but I tried to have a few pastimes on it when taking a tight-timed business trip to a non-scenic place. Pinball, solitaire, and minesweeper don't hack it for long.
But DirectX is probably the big issue, and probably won't be a big bother for a few more years. I have DX8.1 on the machine now, and will make sure and snarf DX9 about as soon as I have time. But it sounds like DXX will only come out for WinXP, and maybe Win2k. But given the number of games that take advantage of even DX8, it'll be a little while before I'm forced to upgrade, at least. Next problem is getting a full copy at a decent price. I have some old Win3.1 diskettes that serve as proof for my Win98SE CD, and I'm not sure what a Win2k/WinXP upgrade would require as proof.
And I'm still in no hurry to make some of my money some of Bill's. Maybe by the time I'm forced to do something, Linux will really be on the desktop with SDL 2.x or 3.x and OpenGL 2.x.
IMHO, Win98SE was the peak of the DOS-extender Windows family.
WinME was a royal pain.
Win2k was decent as an OS, but not there for gaming. (Pursuade me otherwise, and maybe I'll try to buy a copy.)
WinXP is the 'converged' heir apparent, iff you don't mind ACTIVATION.
Besides, I HAVE a legit copy of Win98SE on my main gaming machine, and don't want to send more money West.
This was a Slashdot article on November 17./ 17/22 47251
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11
(sorry, I'm a text-mode bigot.) I'd been thinking about this concept for a few weeks, and about submitting it to Slashdot when someone beat me to the punch. IMHO, it can be developed into a great idea, but needs some work. (That's why I hadn't submitted it, yet.)
This is kind of like the War on Drugs. IMHO, the War on Drugs is more dangerous and has worse side-effects than the drugs, themselves. Current efforts to fight spam are focusing on the spam, and are just breeding more clever spammers.
We need to take the war to the folks who advertise through spammers.
We need to harness the Slashdot effect for Good, instead of Evil.
The purpose of spam is to connect me to someone selling something. So let's connect. Let's ALL connect. Imagine a client that can go through my Mozilla (or Thunderbird) spam folder, and start accessing, via email or http. They would not be prepared for the volume of response.
So let's take these poor folks who advertise through spam and HELP them get to their tarket audience more efficiently, primarily by not targeting so many people who don't want their advertising. So in the auto-response is some sort of tell-tale, "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" words that they can understand. Kind of like a 'Do not call' list, but more like, 'Do not call, or else!'
There are two downsides:
1: It generates extra net traffic, and might be even worse than the spam itself, in this regard. Such a spam-auto-response client would have to be carefully tuned, initially on the light side, and ramping up.
1a: A variation on this might be the tar-client. It would take a fudged TCP stack, but imaging not ACKing packets, or delaying ACKs to slow the traffic and tie up the connection. Harder to do than a classic tarpit, but something might be possible.
2: I could see spammers adding extra response addresses in to their advertisements, just to discredit this type of effort. I could see them adding links to the likes of IBM, Microsoft, and US government institutions so users of the clients would be responsible for a DDOS attack. Some sort of whitelist or extra filtering step would be needed, and any sort of whitelist would come under attack by spammers. (THIS is why I never posted.)
And once the dual layer drives are out, it'll be time to wait for shorter-wavelength burning, or some other must-have feature.
Computing and electronics is always a game of 'enough for now, at a price I can handle.'
Years back I was getting bothered by a headhunter, offering to more than double my salary to move to Silicon Valley. I thought a bit and realized that my cost of living would likely more than double, at least when I considered housing and commute. Besides the near impossiblity of prying my wife out of Vermont, especially for Silicon Valley, I rather like it here, too.
"going to a commune in Vermont where I don't need to think of any unit of time smaller than the season..." (from Soul of the New Machine, by Tracy Kidder)
I do deal in nano and pico seconds, but that's when I'm at work. At home, I like the pace of the area.
Districting laws which are anything but neutral are a DISASTER, be they Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, or Socialist Worker. I would personally not be proud of my party having 'reworked districting laws in their favor.' Restoring neutrality is one thing, and I can agree that true neutrality can be a hard target to hit. But what they're trying to do in Texas is an abomination, carving parts of Austin and diluting them in places a hundred miles away, or more.
One of the things that annoyed me most about the 2000 election was the complete non-neutrality of the Florida Attorney General. She made no pretense of fair play, neutrality, or doing the right thing. She kept yelling, "Game Over, We WON!" as many times as she could, in spite of the fact that the facts were still a bit shakey.
One of the failings of a Democracy is the Tyranny of the Majority. That's where we are, right now. Crap like Gerrymandered redistricting makes it worse. An organized party pushing its agenda without concern for the WHOLE COUNTRY is not a Good Thing.
Dell accused of being merely a box stuffer.
OTOH, Dell is accused of using non-standard parts.
Which is true. One of my highest concerns when buying computing gear is that I can run Linux on it, upgrade it, and fix it, all from standard parts. I usually get my parts at the MIT flea market, Hosstraders' Hamfest, or mail order, and I want those parts (assuming they're good, which they usually are) to work in my systems.
Frankly, I'm scared of ANY brand name, for that very reason, and generally stick to the white boxes.
Only one of my systems isn't below the article's low end. The kids' system is decent, with an Athlon XP 2.1, but my desktop is an old K6-3.
Unfortunately it's AT, not ATX, so it's not a matter of a few hundred to replace the CPU and female-parent-board. It's the case, power supply, memory, etc. (But not the 1987-vintage true-blue IBM keyboard.) By the time I sink that amount of money into it, I'm NOT going for the low end.
I usually keep an eye on CPU prices, and buy around the knee of the price curve. Of course I agree that the other considerations, RAM, disk speed, etc, are at least as important as the CPU.
Agreed, but...
Where's google?
I honestly think google should be visually recognizable on such a map.
Never mind, I just realized that it's a hop map, not a link map. I would expect both google and slashdot (and perhaps memepool) to be recognizable on a link map.
That's it. Thanks.